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More than 3,000 soldiers let out a cheer that shook the ship from bow to stern. They had been diverted from the Pacific...
...surrender of all the Jap forces still scattered across the torn face of Asia and the Pacific. Some of the President's advisers reasoned that for this reason, if no other, the Emperor had best be left untouched. The President reasoned just the other way: the Emperor must bow specifically and unmistakably to the victor...
Said the Prince with a bow to the Marshal: "Pátain prevented many executions; had it not been for him, political depor tees would have numbered 2,000,000 instead...
When he had written enough to fill a three-volume novel, he tied up the loose ends of his story in as neat a bow as possible (it was sometimes very untidy), reached for a fresh sheet of paper and started another novel. In this way, he said cheerily, he had amassed nearly 170,000 in 30 years. He had spent most of it on fox hunting-in fact, he admitted, his main reason for writing romances was to make money to buy horses with...
...quick-thinking operator of a coal derrick edged his big machine to the bank, swung the bucket of his crane up to the Hamonic's bow, swung it down to earth again when it had taken on its frantic load. Captain Beaton, scorched out of his pilot house, attempted to climb to a lower deck but fell. He plunged into the water from the portside, climbed back aboard up the crane boom, stayed there till all were...